This was a whole microcosmos of fashion, a parallel universe. When asked about color, Kawakubo replied, "You can even do that with tailoring." This is not actually as obtuse a statement as it first sounds. The opening black-and-white houndstooth and pinstripe looks had something op art-ish about them; the tailoring made the eye mix color optically. Then, of course, there was a literal and joyful explosion of it in the later looks; an outsider artist called Daniel Michiels had been commissioned by Kawakubo to add his voice in the form of these multicolored prints. And that is not to mention the burned wigs the models wore, intensely colored and then partially destroyed by the hairdresser Julien